Rising Significance of Hybrid Cloud

While the public cloud has dominated the spotlight in the cloud computing landscape, drawing considerable attention away from private and hybrid options, experts foresee a shift. Hybrid cloud solutions are expected to take center stage. The shift indicates a growing recognition of the value that hybrid cloud offers, combining elements from public and private clouds to meet diverse business needs. As organizations seek flexibility and security, the hybrid cloud model is becoming increasingly vital.

IDC estimates traditional data centers this year accounted for 62 percent of IT infrastructure spending, with 23 percent of the market going to the public cloud and 15 percent going to the private cloud. Data centers will drop to account for 50 percent of the market with public cloud at just under one/third of the market and private cloud capturing 20 percent.

Experts predict that Hybrid cloud strategies of major corporations such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle and IBM will become clear. The coming year is set to be the year of adoption and a year to assess how much traction they will gain and what their best use cases are.

As organizations move workloads to the public cloud, they're set to gain valuable knowledge about what the public cloud is used for, and what it's not. The mega-trend that's driving the entire cloud computing market is enabling application developers to innovate and create new business value as soon as possible.

Experts note as hybrid cloud computing becomes the routine, establishing, managing and optimizing these connections will be a priority. It is expected to be the year where private and hybrid cloud vendors talk about how to bring machine learning and AI capabilities in these environments.